Flora of North America species comparison

branched, (0.9–)1.3–7(–12) dm, (somewhat glaucous, glabrous throughout or pubescent basally).

petiole (0.7–)2–8.5 cm, ciliate;

blade usually oblanceolate to spatulate, rarely obovate or lanceolate, (1.5–)2.2–15(–25) cm × (6–)10–35(–50) mm, margins often pinnately lobed to lyrate, sometimes dentate or entire.

sessile;

blade linear to lanceolate, smaller distally, (base sagittate or auriculate, appressed to stem), margins usually entire, rarely dentate.

dense, elongated in fruit, (flower buds narrowly oblong).

sepals erect to ascending, oblong to linear-oblong, (3–)3.5–6(–8) × (0.8–)1–1.8(–2) mm;

petals white to lavender, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, (6–)6.5–11(–14.5) × 0.5–0.7(–1) mm, margins strongly crisped, claw differentiated from blade, (slender, 2–4 mm, narrowest at base);

nectar glands surrounding bases of lateral stamens, median glands absent;

filaments subequal, (2.5–)4.5–8.5(–10.5) mm;

anthers exserted, linear to narrowly oblong, 2–3.5(–4.5) mm, circinately coiled, (apiculate);

gynophore 0.5–1.5(–3.5) mm.

erect to erect-ascending, (appressed to rachis at least basally), straight or slightly curved, slender, (1.5–)2–5(–10) mm, not flattened at base.

divaricate to ascending, torulose, straight or slightly curved, terete, (0.6–)1–2.5(–4.2) cm × 0.7–1(–1.8) mm;

ovules 22–50 per ovary;

style cylindrical, 0.5–1.5(–2.5) mm.

(flattened), 1–1.5(–1.7) × 0.5–0.7(–1) mm.

= 26.